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We often quote our country as &OpenCurlyQuote;Incredible India’&comma; but we hardly think about the reasons behind this statement&period; Okay&comma; let us tell you one of the reasons that makes India incredible and silly that it may sound to you now&comma; but that fact that we eat with our hands and not with glittery cutlery&comma; make&period;&period;&period;

Recently&comma; in order to spend some quality time together on the occasion of our sixth wedding anniversary&comma; we decided to visit our favourite hill station near Mumbai&comma; Matheran&period; We stayed at the most beautiful heritage property &lpar;almost 170 years old&rpar; at Matheran&comma; Dune Barr House &lpar;also popularly known a&period;&period;&period;

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Brief History of Carrot &NewLine;It is generally assumed that the eastern&comma; purple-rooted carrot originated in Afghanistan in the region where the Himalayan and Hindu Kush mountains meet&comma; and that it was domesticated in Afghanistan and adjacent regions of Russia&comma; Iran&comma; India&comma; Pakistan and Anatolia&period; Purple carrot&comma; together with a yellow variant&comma; spread to the Mediterranean region and western Europe in the 11–14th centuries&comma; and to China&comma; India and Japan in the 14–17th centuries&period;&NewLine;&NewLine;The cultivated carrot is believed to have originated from forms with roots coloured purple anthocyanins as well as yellow mutants lacking anthocyanins&period; These forms spread to the West and East reaching Asia Minor around the 10th or 11th centuries&comma; Arab occupied Spain in the 12th century&comma; continental North West Europe by the 14th century&period; England in the early 15th century&period; Before the 16th century carrots were purple or yellow with long roots&period; The yellow roots were often preferred because they did noearly short horn carrott release anthocyanins during cooking&period; In the 16th century it is thought that Dutch growers developed a denser orange carotene carrot from yellow varieties and this deep orange carrot was the progenitor of the modern cultivated carrot we know&period;&NewLine;&NewLine;The first evidence of carrot used as a food crop is in the Iranian Plateau and the Persian Empire in the 10th century AD&period; These original carrot roots were purple and yellow in colour&period; From Persia&comma; cultivated carrot spread to surrounding areas&period; Orange carrots appear to have become popular in the 16th century when Dutch and Spanish paintings began depicting orange carrots in market scenes&comma; although orange carrots likely originated much earlier&period; Banga &lpar;1957&rpar; first hypothesized that orange carrots were initially selected from yellow cultivars and this is now supported by modern genetic analyses&period;&NewLine;&NewLine;The western&comma; orange carrot probably arose in Europe or in the western Mediterranean region through gradual selection within yellow carrot populations&period; The Dutch landraces Long Orange and the finer Horn types&comma; first described in 1721&comma; were an important basis for the western carrot cultivars grown at present all over the world&period;&NewLine;&NewLine;The word "carrot" was first recorded in English around 1530 and was borrowed from Middle French carotte&comma; itself from Late Latin car&omacr;ta&comma; from Greek καρωτόν kar&omacr;ton&comma; originally from the Indo-European root &ast;ker- &lpar;horn&rpar;&comma; due to its horn-like shape&period; In Old English&comma; carrots &lpar;typically white at the time&rpar; were not clearly distinguished from parsnips&comma; the two being collectively called moru or more &lpar;from Proto-Indo-European &ast;mork- "edible root"&comma; German for carrot is Möhre&rpar;&period; Various languages still use the same word for "carrot" as they do for "root"&semi; e&period;g&period; in Dutch it is wortel&period;&NewLine;&NewLine;More&colon; www&period;carrotmuseum&period;co&period;uk&sol;history&period;html ... See MoreSee Less

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